Khaemweset

• Preferred Name: Khaemweset ^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Governor of Memphis.
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Crown Prince of EgyptBET 1229 BC AND 1224 BC with note: between Year 50 and Year 55 of his father's reign
  
• Religion: First Sem - Priest of Ptah
  
• Birth: ABT 1275 BC in Egypt at LATI: N7 LONG: E0 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: 9W8M-R6X
  
• Death: 1224 BC in Egypt at LATI: N7 LONG: E0
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: High Priest of the God Ptah in Memphis with note: Wikiwand: Khaemweset
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Prince Khaemweset (also translated as Khamwese, Khaemwese or Khaemwaset or Setne Khamwas) was the fourth son of Ramesses II and the second son by his queen Isetnofret. His contributions to Egyptian society were remembered for centuries after his death. Khaemweset has been described as "the first Egyptologist" due to his efforts in identifying and restoring historic buildings, tombs and temples.
  Khaemweset held the position of Crown Prince to the throne between Year 50 and Year 55 of his father's reign when he died. He was succeeded in this position by his full brother Merneptah. He also served as Governor of Memphis.
  
  Khaemweset was the son of Ramesses II and Queen Isetnofret. He had at least two brothers: Prince Ramesses was his elder brother and Merneptah was his younger brother. Bintanath was his sister. These three siblings are depicted on the Aswan Rock stela with the Pharaoh and Queen shown with Khaemweset in another register. It is possible that Princess Isetnofret was a full sister of Khaemwaset as well, although it is equally possible she was only a half-sister.
  
  Khaemweset is known to have had two sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Ramesses, is mentioned on a block statue from Memphis. Ramesses holds the title "King's Son" on the statue, which here should be interpreted as King's grandson. On the Dorsal Pillar the text reads: "[It is] his dear [son] who perpetuates his name - The King's Son, excellent in wisdom, upright in mind in every deed, great in his enlightenment at all times to maintain the offerings for his father, – the King's Son Ramesses, justified and venerated one."
  
  His second son, Hori, became High Priest of Ptah at Memphis during the later part of the 19th Dynasty.
  
  Khaemweset is also known to have had a daughter named Isetnofret (also written as Isitnofret). Other women at court with that name include her grandmother Queen Isetnofret and her father’s sister. Khaemweset's daughter Isetnofret may have married her uncle, the pharaoh Merneptah. If so, she would be identical to Queen Isetnofret II. Isetnofret's tomb may have recently[when?] been found in Saqqara during excavations by Waseda University. Not much is known about Khaemweset's wife, though in the demotic story, Setna II, his wife bears the name Meheweskhe.
  
  One grandson of his is known. His son Hori had a son who was also named Hori. This grandson of Khaemweset would later serve as Vizier of Egypt during the tumultuous period at the end of the Nineteenth Dynasty. He was still performing these duties under Ramesses III.

1. Isetnofret bint Khaemwaset III, b. ABT 1250 BC in Memphis, Egypt    

1. Isetnofret bint Khaemwaset III, b. ABT 1250 BC in Memphis, Egypt    

1. Title: Wikiwand: Serapeum of Saqqara
   Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Serapeum_of_Saqqara;
   Note: The Serapeum of Saqqara is a serapeum located north west of the Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, a necropolis near Memphis in Lower Egypt. It was a burial place of Apis bulls, sacred bulls that were incarnations of the ancient Egyptian deity Ptah. It was believed that the bulls became immortal after death as "Osiris Apis," a name that appears in Coptic as ⲟⲩⲥⲉⲣϩⲁⲡⲓ, "Userhapi," which was borrowed in Greek as Σέραπις, "Serapis," in the Hellenistic period. History The most ancient burials found at this site date back to the reign of Amenhotep III, the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty during the 1350s BC. Working as an administrator during the reign of his father, Khaemweset, a son of Ramesses II (1279–1213 BC) of the nineteenth dynasty, ordered that a tunnel be excavated at the site, and a catacomb of galleries - now known as "The Lesser Vaults" - be designed with side chambers to contain the sarcophagi for the mummified remains of the bulls. But for one, all chambers were found emptied of their contents except for a disarray of dedication stelae. A second gallery of chambers, now known as "The Greater Vaults," was excavated under Psamtik I (664–610 BC) of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty and later extended to approximately 350 m in length, 5 m tall and 3 m wide (1,148.3×16.4×9.8 ft) by the Ptolemaic dynasty along with a long, parallel service tunnel. These gallery chambers contained granite and diorite sarcophagi weighing up to 70 tonnes each, though all were found empty. The long boulevard leading to the ceremonial site, flanked by 600 sphinxes, likely was built under Nectanebo I, (379/8–361/0 BC) the founder of the thirtieth dynasty (the last native one). Discovery The temple was discovered by Auguste Mariette, who had gone to Egypt to collect Coptic-language manuscripts, but later grew interested in the remains of the Saqqara necropolis. In 1850, Mariette found the head of one sphinx sticking out of the shifting desert dunes, cleared the sand and followed the boulevard to the site. After using explosives to clear rocks blocking the entrance to the catacomb, he excavated most of the complex. Unfortunately, his notes of the excavation were lost, which has complicated the use of these burials in establishing an Egyptian chronology. Mariette found one undisturbed burial, which is now at the Agricultural Museum in Cairo. The other 24 sarcophagi of the bulls had been robbed. Controversy A controversial aspect of the Saqqara find is that for the period between the reign of Ramesses XI and the twenty-third year of the reign of Osorkon II – about 250 years – only nine burials have been discovered, including three sarcophagi Mariette reported to have identified in a chamber too dangerous to excavate (that have not been located since). Because the average lifespan of a bull was between 25 and 28 years, egyptologists believe that more burials should have been found. Furthermore, four of the burials attributed by Mariette to the reign of Ramesses XI have since been retrodated. David Rohl advocates changes to the standard Egyptian chronology and has argued that the dating of the Twentieth Dynasty should be pushed some 300 years later on the basis of the Saqqara discovery. Most scholars] rebut that it is far more likely that some burials of sacred bulls are waiting to be discovered and excavated.
   
2. Title: Wikiwand: Khaemweset
   Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Khaemweset;
   Note: Prince Khaemweset (also translated as Khamwese, Khaemwese or Khaemwaset or Setne Khamwas) was the fourth son of Ramesses II, who was born c. 1303 BCE; died July or August 1213 BCE; reigned 1279–1213 BCE, and the second son by his queen Isetnofret. He is by far the best known son of Ramesses II, and his contributions to Egyptian society were remembered for centuries after his death. Khaemweset has been described as "the first Egyptologist" due to his efforts in identifying and restoring historic buildings, tombs and temples. Life According to historian Miriam Lichtheim: While first exploring the Serapeum of Saqqara between 1851 and 1853, French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette was confronted by a huge rock, which could only be moved by the use of explosives. Once the shattered remnants of the rock were removed, an intact coffin was discovered which contained the mummy of a man, accompanied by numerous funerary treasures. A gold mask covered his face, and amulets gave his name as Prince Khaemweset, son of Ramesses II and builder of the Serapeum. These remains have now been lost but Egyptologists believe that this was not the grave of Khaemweset and that the remains were those of an Apis Bull made into a human form to resemble the Prince. The Egyptologist Aidan Dodson is quoted writing in his book "Canopic Equipment from the Serapeum of Memphis": "Designated Apis XIV, it comprised a wooden sarcophagus, largely embedded in the ground, with its upper part largely crushed. Inside, there was what had the appearance of a human mummy, its face covered by a somewhat crude gold mask, damaged by damp and bearing a considerable quantity of jewelry, some bearing the name of Prince Khaemweset. In spite of its appearance, the mummy proved to be a mass of fragrant resin, containing a quantity of disordered bone. Although frequently stated to be the mummy of Khaemweset, on the basis of its possessing his jewelry, the mass of resin containing bony fragments is far more reminiscent of the undoubted Apis of tombs E and G. Its formation into the simulacrum of a human mummy also finds echo in the anthropoid coffin lids that covered the resinous masses within the sarcophagi of Apis VII and IX, there can thus be no doubt that the burial is actually that of the bull, Apis XIV." During earlier excavations the Waseda University expedition found the remains of a monument which may have been Khaemweset's "ka-house." Khaemweset in Ancient Egyptian fiction In later periods of Egyptian history, Khaemweset was remembered as a wise man, and portrayed as the hero in a cycle of stories dating to the Hellenistic period. In these stories his name is Setne, a distortion of the real Khaemwaset's title as setem-priest of Ptah; modern scholars call this character "Setne Khamwas." The first tale, dubbed "Setne I" or "Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah," describes how Khaemwaset seeks and finds a book of powerful magical spells, the "Book of Thoth," in the tomb of Prince Naneferkaptah. Against the wishes of the Naneferkaptah's spirit, Khaemwaset takes the book and becomes cursed. Setne then meets a beautiful woman who seduces him into killing his children and humiliating himself in front of the pharaoh. He discovers that this episode was an illusion created by Neferkaptah, and in fear of further retribution, Setne returns the book to Neferkaptah's tomb. At Neferkaptah's request, Setne also finds the bodies of Neferkaptah's wife and son and buries them in Neferkaptah's tomb, which is then sealed. The second tale is known as Setne II or the Tale of Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire. Khaemwaset and his wife have a son named Si-Osire who turns out to be a highly skilled magician. In the first part of the story, Si-Osire brings his father to visit the Duat, the land of the dead, where they see the pleasant fate of the deceased spirits who lived justly and the torments inflicted on spirits who sinned during their lives. In the second part, it is revealed that Si-Osire is actually a famous magician from the time of Thutmose III who returned to save Egypt from a Nubian magician. After the confrontation, Si-Osire disappears, and Khaemwaset and his wife have a real son who is also named Si-Osire in honor of the magician. Popular culture . In The Kane Chronicles book "The Serpent's Shadow," Khaemweset appears as a ghost under the name of Setne. Unlike contemporary and fictional portrayals by the Egyptians, he is portrayed as a ruthless and power-hungry priest who wants to become a god. On the other hand, he is known to be extremely charismatic and can persuade people to agree to his line of thinking. At the end of the book, he steals the Book of Thoth and begins to dabble in Greek and Egyptian magic in later related media. He is defeated by the Kanes, Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase in the end and imprisoned in a miniature snow globe. . Khaemwaset appears in the game "Age of Mythology" under the name of Setna, where he is portrayed as a priest of Osiris rather than Ptah. . Khaemwaset is the protagonist of Pauline Gedge's novel "Scroll of Saqqara."